All Blacks vs Springboks I
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@bones said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@machpants he's saying he posted the same thing, before seeing your post.
A booboo.
Welcome to the fern...
Ah I thought he was saying I made a booboo, I know the booboo meme. But I couldn't figure out where I fucked up!
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@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Hard to know exactly what South African team will front up ,
While the media are acting like the results against Australia are a shock , The reality is normality has resumed ,
They may have won the same amount of world cups as us , but outside that , have been a pretty hot and cold team in reality , I think they enjoy getting themselves up for a window like a World Cup but struggle maintaining consistency for extended periods
The decline in Super, the rise of NH, and being able to pick players from Northern hemisphere helped too... The players who came back looked like stars, where previously they'd been off the pace
And how has that worked for the Bokke?
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@bones said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@machpants he's saying he posted the same thing, before seeing your post.
A booboo.
Welcome to the fern...
Ahh ... I see I have caused confusion and angst.
Win.
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This will be the team if ALB is fit:
1 Tu'inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Retallick
5 Barrett
6 Ioane
7 Papalii
8 Savea
9 Perenara
10 Barrett
11 Ioane
12 Havili
13 ALB
14 Reece
15 Barrett16 Taukei'aho
17 Moody
18 Tu'ungafasi
19 Tuipulotu
20 Jacobson
21 Weber
22 DMac
23 Jordan -
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@tim said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
There is one abject retard, I think he still posts here, who in 2019 posted about how glad he was that Rieko Ioane was dropped. We have some real morons, but that takes the cake for stupidity.
I don't think this was me, but on behalf of all abject retards around here, I think we ought to have leniency on dumb posts made after a suitable period of time.
After all, this is the Fern not a marriage!
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@tim said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
This will be the team if ALB is fit:
1 Tu'inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Retallick
5 Barrett
6 Ioane
7 Papalii
8 Savea
9 Perenara
10 Barrett
11 Ioane
12 Havili
13 ALB
14 Reece
15 Barrett16 Taukei'aho
17 Moody
18 Tu'ungafasi
19 Tuipulotu
20 Jacobson
21 Weber
22 DMac
23 Jordan19 is the only one there that I think might/should be incorrect.
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@crucial you'd have Vaa'i?
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@tim said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
This will be the team if ALB is fit:
1 Tu'inukuafe
2 Taylor
3 Laulala
4 Retallick
5 Barrett
6 Ioane
7 Papalii
8 Savea
9 Perenara
10 Barrett
11 Ioane
12 Havili
13 ALB
14 Reece
15 Barrett16 Taukei'aho
17 Moody
18 Tu'ungafasi
19 Tuipulotu
20 Jacobson
21 Weber
22 DMac
23 JordanI think that's the 23 if ALB fit, with 19 the biggest uncertainty. My hunch, though, is that Moody will be in 1 and Karl in 17.
If ALB out I'd be inclined to go with Tuapea on bench and Jordan moving to 14.
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@booboo said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@nzzp said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@kiwiinmelb said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Hard to know exactly what South African team will front up ,
While the media are acting like the results against Australia are a shock , The reality is normality has resumed ,
They may have won the same amount of world cups as us , but outside that , have been a pretty hot and cold team in reality , I think they enjoy getting themselves up for a window like a World Cup but struggle maintaining consistency for extended periods
The decline in Super, the rise of NH, and being able to pick players from Northern hemisphere helped too... The players who came back looked like stars, where previously they'd been off the pace
And how has that worked for the Bokke?
Well, it got them a RWC, and the No 1 ranking for two years (tongue firmly in cheek).
Seriously, though, like Australia, it filled some holes when needed. Some of the players they grabbed (Kolbe, JOC, etc) were absolute stars.
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@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@crucial you'd have Vaa'i?
Yep. Offers more energy and, although a test against the bokke may not be the traditional place to 'grow' a player, needs games against this type of physical opposition to develop.
Pat T isn't the future IMO. Has had loads of chances and just seems to go missing. -
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@kiwimurph said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Vaai seems like a great 'system fit' for how Fozzie wants his forwards to play the game.
Mobile, highly skillful, high workrate and improving at the dark arts.
In future, he might be able to cover 6 from the bench too. That would allow for a 7/8 (like Ardie) on the bench without having a starter cover 6
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@crucial said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@nostrildamus said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
@crucial you'd have Vaa'i?
Yep. Offers more energy and, although a test against the bokke may not be the traditional place to 'grow' a player, needs games against this type of physical opposition to develop.
Pat T isn't the future IMO. Has had loads of chances and just seems to go missing.A shame cos he sure looks the part in terms of being a big bruiser to compete with Bok/English packs. Massive human being up close when I saw him and the rest of the Blues on a flight earlier this year.
Didn’t get a chance to have breakfast with him or any of his teammates but he took up a lot of room when walking down the aisle of a plane.
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i don't really believe in all this "motivating the opposition" guff, this isn't park football
but
we are starting to talk this up to uncomfortable levels.
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@duluth said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
Geez Laurie, this is eerily reminiscent of when Fitzy said he wouldn’t choose a single Australian in a combined team back in 2003
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@mariner4life said in All Blacks vs Springboks I:
i don't really believe in all this "motivating the opposition" guff, this isn't park football
but
we are starting to talk this up to uncomfortable levels.
Yeah - a couple of weeks ago, no-one thought the Aussies would get close to SA.
In theory you'd think:
NZ>Aus
Aus>SASo NZ>SA
But, it doesn't always happen that way.
However, the Boks will be paying plenty on the TAB.
